• , . , VOL. 3. I;ll'tican igountv ilkutocrat. ,PUBVISItpD EV.t4Y TfIUitSDAY BIOR;aNG, By EL. B. .OVIATT; ' • SSIF.TFIPORT,-:COUNTY, PA OFFICE S S . E ;CORNEE•QF 'PIIELIC. SgtfARE ' TEEMS: -- - Si's° u Advance' . • •. • • .. • • • Rates of .Adifertuae.g... . : •.. :/ C,olttruit one ` ZOOQ ..... 120 -!, sic ... .... 2000, • • 1200 . :One square of orlees,-3 150 . 25' Business Car - de, :with paperi"• • .... .. 00 - Rule or: Bgo re work will be double . the; above, • rates. 'Tiara lines Crevier type,- or eight lines nosparellOn rated aequare.', • • • E - 3- These Torms.tvill striotly 'adhered to„,i'a Business Mit-atm. . -•-• A.: BLAKE • • TIENTISTi would respectfully inform the lnhallitanti JUT of Olean and • surrounding country that he has to-. cated himselLperMinently in Olean,- for the practice of Lie prcifeesion;,where he Will ho prepared to wait on all :who choose to 'give him a'call. .0111ce.oier C. IL, Things . .Dry Goods Store,' . . ..• Olean,, May 12,1.860.- • , • , . • . OT.MAICI HOUSE, , . . . . . . . . , A. F.. Rano, .Proprietor, Olean, •• N. Y. . • Omnilds runs to and 'from the Now-Pork and Rrie Rail Road: Stagol for Smethport and Ceres. • •• '. • - .• - • • . • • • Berveyori Deaftstnen . .Conveyancer.. Sad 'IWO Estate • .Agent. Smoqiport f ?tritest' county, Pa.. ' • • . B. F. WitlgHT, • • . • . . . .. , . . . WhOlnhale andfletail•Dealer in Family' Crioceries, Pork, '• Flour, .Salt, Paid; Boots and Shoes; &c., &e. .Store In the Astor Houseillock Itmetlipbit Pa. •• . ~ . • . . 'A, 31:.TAYLO'll ..• . . '. • • , . beater io Dry driods, GrOcoiles, . pork, Flour, Salt, .Fish 'Ready-Mado.Olothiog, llopis ant Shoes. Smethportt WILLIAM WILKTIC •: . Practical MeOltanic., liridgeAnriLler, Port Alloghetiy, 31 , Flean county, Pa. • • J. L. BROWN, • .SURREYOR,' TRAUTMAN, CONVEYANCY.R . and Real. . Estate Agent; Office, .WlMani E " Chapin 4 Rnyle, Hon..Thonias. Strather3, W. R. Drolinell, • Eta:f.", Hon. A. t Wilcox, Snietlindrk, Pa Buena. Vista. Po, • ' . CARVER: HOUSE, • • Jot= H..Hou. Proprietor. corner of Water and Hickory Streets, Warren, Pa. .General Stage Office:' . PORES HOUSE, Fronting - the Public Square. Wean. N. -T. M. BULLER. Proprietor.' TheFobes Muse is entirely new and built of prick,. and in furnished in modern style. The• proprietor flatters himself that hie accoreinoda. Ilona are not surpassed by anrhotel :In Western New York: Carriages run to ttyd from the New York and &ria Rail Road.. . _ . . . . , . . — ' BYltOll D..EAMIIIt,. .. Aritivrir AT LAW; . 13inetlipott,' TiLillean County. Pa, . Agent, for, Messrs. Keating . So Co's Lands • Attends . especially.y. to the.ColpintiOn of Claims,' Examination of Land Titres. 'Tapsient of Taxes, and all business rola . tog to Beal ' Estate: 'Mice iis Hamlin Block. . • . GREEN'S HOTEL •..••- . . . . . . . D.Watoltriropilatort=st Einzna,.:lyarren county . ra. ' Ilia Table will 'he supplied with the . best' tho • . country etiordsi nod he' epare no pains in eccomodgtiwg his guests. :.- . • . . . ~ • . . E. BOITORTOR ELDRED, • • . At to rney end 'Counsellor at 'Law, , fireethport, M'Kean County, Pa: 'Buelness' entrusted to hie care tor the counties acll,Keao,,otterand Elk will be promptly attended to Mee' in the Court House,' sienna floor. • • • • •-• • . DR..L. R. wrsnit, • • • • . PhyAlcitth anal Surgedn, Smethport.; Pa, "will•attend to all . profefisiodal calls witll Promptness. • Oflice.ju Sart- , well•glock, geeplid,floor. • •• • ••• • . • THING Bi. MILLp, . • . . . . Minlemale and Itutal Dealers in Staple and Fancy Dry Goods; carpeting; Ready Made Olothina. and Gerieral ' Furniabing Gonda, Beata 'and Shoes, .Wall and Window , Paper,,Lnoking Olaasea 'dr.o.. .t.t. Olean. N. Y. .--,4,--- • • .• . . ..11ENNETT,1101 7 SE,_ • ." • , , Fmittlfpoti, ii'lrehn:Clo;, D..W.BeitNryr, Proprie tor—oppostio the Court 'House.. A new s large, corn ' modions' ana well.furnisheA house. -.' • . . • JOHN C. BACKUS, ' • . . . . Attorney end Counsellor at Law, Smethport.,.M , Kean do , • Pa..' Will attend to all businesa in his profession . in the' insulting of WlCenn, Potter and .111 k. Office 'over O.K. • .Sartyrell k.,Brothgra,"Stoie . , • • . BACIRIETHOUSE,' .• Corner of SecOnd•aiid liberty streets, Warrin ' • Pa. R. 'A. Proprietor., Travelers .vrill and good ea ..coinodations and reasonable charges. ' ' , Deafer in Stoves, Tin Wared'appaned Ware,' &c., west side of, the Dahlia Square, •Smethport, Custom wArk done to order on the shortest notice, an. In' the. .most substantial =tanner. . ' . . • W. S.-BROWNE • Dealer In Dry • Goode, Grooerles, Crockery, 'Hardware, biota, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Glees, Nails, Oils; kt.; East sidnol the Publie Square, Srocthnort, Pa. OTT9; . . . • . .. . . . . Dealer'. inProviiions and Family GroOorlos'gonsially, at Farrnors . Valloy, IW Kean 00., Pa. • ()rain,- ;An tabor, Shingles, &O.; taken In exehange for Goods. Patent . ' Medicines for Nola. , '.., . ~ . . LARABEE'S HOTEL, . . . , . . IL LAR.{.III:6. 'Propriator,—Alleglfeny . Bridge, Mil - fear( ' - Clo ,dra. .Thla house la Pituaged about nine miles from Ilmethpoit on the road •to Olean, and will be found a convenient al.oppiag-placa . ~.. -..„• : : , •' . , • '• EM PORIUM ' HOUSE; •.. ': . ' ... . , .. liihippan, 11 , Knan, On:, Pa. N: L. DYKE, Proprio or A.- comniodioun and woll.furnished Imo. Strange .s ' and Lzavelera wilt Chid good accomniodatiops. . • . . • - FAIOIERIP :VALLEY.II.OI:EL, . • • By T.GOODWIN. Thia house is situated abont lire mil e • from Sao:divert on tiae roadlo Olean.: Pleasure parties ~and othets eau be accommodated oia the sliqitentisotido• ELDRED HALF-WAX HOUSE, NATHAN DaWats, P.roprietor. This house In situated -way between Smothport and Olean. If you want aOod dinner this is tle.Plete to stop. • . GHORRIS CORWIN, , . „ . P.reprtetot of the GHIA MM. . at I%tochiniaßbtirg•lge Kean County Pa. Flour. Meal, 'and.Feed, ennetantl :oa hand and for Ral e. In large anti iimallvantitiell. • ' 'PORT ALLEGAtY- HOUSE. . .ENoOP B. Dota.ky, ll'reprietor, •at Port Allegany, Mo . Kean Om:atty. Pit, 'Thle Hotel isattuated at the juoc tion or, thellimettinert and - Allegany Itiver ioade; nine • miles east of Smethport. . . , . . „. . . ASTO.R . .. - HOn SE ' WM. •HASKgLL Proprietor. Thai Prohriator hiving recently purchased and thor: needy refitted the.Aotdr H,nuse, flatten' himself" that he can tarnish an good accoron3odationeaa'any hotel in IVott. • eraPoPsylvlll:o•' . • • ... • . - If one has¢, young heart in his left breast Pocket; and .=every thing has gene Vight • with him.ever since he can remember and he slts in his'artn chair, he may: easily fancy himself young—indeed, quite.yOungL•ln it , net' do . ; 'he is: otd - in•.spite . - of 'his lieart, and his' arm chair, his fancies. ' It is'a painful , process,. that 'of beginning • to find out what the- world has known ever so long . .that one . is groWing Old. -Ilowltishricks him some day, as he is walking in th'e: garden, to "hear the gardener talk to the, cook about the old man,'' and the old man'. nobody in life - but . his nwn adolescent Self, ~Old - - linen 1 . . ; And he steps as spry as a cat;:: and • discharges thd anfortnnate gardener, and is too mita in a pas sion.to give 'him a ticharacter." . thee, again, "the giasshoppetts : a•burden," fdr little things trouble hiin, as they never ,did years ago r hulhe.thinkslittlethings have got their growth since these old times. - But 'Allis don't quite satisfy him; and he muses over., it,. end he wonders why his shadow extends So , far to.the eastward. • , Soine day lie meets.a stranger tri.the :street ;. be is.boetedlike a ,trboper, and bearded like, a pard; he lOoks him "square" in"the is glad to see binf; wondergi if be don't remem her him he deelares that he is little Bill Stokes that was, that he made basswood .whiatles for wben he akept" in the old red school.houSe at Bogg's C,6lners.; and there fie'is right before him, man to Men, -There is.no use denying it ; he,cannot proVe an alibi,.and he falls into e browri study aahe thinka.of it; • Then, againObere's something—the - . matter with big back, but he alyrays calls, it a acrick," when all daY it is the river Titne'that is play ing the misehief." Ha 'knows that it will not do' for him testt near an open window as he, used to do, hilt it has latterly' been . a . favorite idea•with him' that.thi summers, grow briefer and the winters coldet. And whit work. they make now with the baking ; such. crusts, of lranite,to them., • Not'itich as'did his old moth er bring . out from the old, oven' on the long handlvl shovel, on those long gone Saturdays, when helancied ginger bread. the daily fare of Pi Warrin, :Pa. 13y-and-by he begins toeperience some 'dif ficulty :in •reading his old oewipaper=some thing with an L or an XI. vol: in the corner of it,..that he never remembers thatbe has . taken itsince it was two . X's and an I ' , but then he charge's:it upon the type, 'and pronopriees- an anathema,upcM.nonpareil and minion tvhettit is nothing . but brevier. • '• He fancies, too, that the girls hal;e changed, when the charge nenrerhome, for .the man. is growing old, and t.hOse • same maidens are . wondering the while if, he ever had a sweet:. heart,-or could possibly at anytime havebeen 'Young enough to love., . • Sd this painful process.of discovery progress,- es until-a prisoner, he keeps the old arm chair, and theold.clock dial growS dim, ,and- the old cloCk bell sounds a great af:ay.o'ff . ,aod he ddzei in the open door, and loVes to look at the Set , Ling atin; and ' shares the children 2 s toyi. and talks himself to sreep. It, is a surnaner eVe ning ; yellow light :falls . uPon the • threshold, arid along the floor, and invests:the-old - man's forth 'with an old glory, He sits in the .dwel ling of his son's son ;. his head reclines upon his breast.. . Light .stePs • steal softly, 'around hlin, bur be , hears them : not.' ..A 'set of little liners. are 'playing with his thin,' . but he does pot heed . it. lrwo'generations call to him ;.„the second is strong and manly ; it 3s father'. they Utter ; the . third•is childlike and gentle ;, it' is "grandfather" they say,'but he returns.no 'answer to either. ' ferhe sun has set," :Somebody ,says ; ((the . clock has just run down," cries another ; ,"the old.man is asieep,"-whispers Et. third ; and.sure enough be for the old Man is, dead. A man may claim his appetites, and . hold the' realm of knowledge within the Cincture of 'his brain, and;. yet , the saddest. aspect. of all . be overcome by the world: 'And again I say,'how startling is the fact that. one ,may: hold 'on steadily up to a particular point,' and -there gives aivey; omy brother map, meaning to' live the life .of 'duty, the life .of religion, the 'world is a Mighty antagonist, subtle' as, it . is strong; more to be dreaded in its whispers to the heart's secret inclinations than groaishapes . of evil. And let.me Say' to you,' that it is a , great , thing in this. respect to overcome :'the .world.' It is a greet thing by God's 1161 p and your own ,efforts to , keep it in its eager pressure, “Thus far and no faither.7 . A great "thing, 0 merehant to carry . the clue pf.• rectitude through the labyrinthe of traffic, and to :feel the woof of eternal sanctions. crossing crossing the . warp of dally.interests. A great thing, 0 pol= itician to withstand the fickle teasings pf popUlarity, to scorn the palatable lick and .keep God'seignet upon, your cOascience.: A great think, - 0 man whatever your condition, to re= .sist the appeals of:enVy'and revenge, Or 'ava riee and'pleasurei and to feel , thia your lifWhas higher-ends than these. Strenuous Must be:the en1123310r, but protiortionallyblest. is the . victo-' .ry . of 'hitt whom itf , these. issues overcornesthe world:—Rev. B. li. Cltapin.' 'About the age of thirty;..six, the , lean man gen erally becomes fatter, and the fat man leaner.. :SMO.II-IPOItT.,. ,AI.%E AN' 'COUNTY ; PA ~,,THURSDAY, ..x.0., 24; .15.60. GROWING OLD. ° Ilanly Men. . . .. . •• .. ..• . . . ~.. . . . . • ... . . .• . . . ~ ~ ... .. . : ... . , . . . . ..i . • ... .. .• ... . .. . ... ..• . . . . ' ... ..-• . . '..... - . :.. " I .. . . • • . . . , . i • . .. - - . ' ...,........... . ' • :. ... • . . ~ • ~ . .. .... SPRING DISEASES A ?iyhousekeeper. would , be' ccMsidered de. mtnted. who would kpep tip as fierce a fire on: the hearth inthe spring. as in mid-Winter: On' the contrary, - as the days grow Warmer, less. and lesifuel is used; uptilt„ife fire is not kip-, died - at elk . . of 'the AviO main objects of - eating is to • thebodY - warm ; and it : need . not . beaigued that lese.wermth is required in summer than in• winter.; but if we eat as heartily as the spring advanees as We did In. old weather, we will burn up with..fever, cause we have made too much' heat.. The -in stincts of our nature are perfectly. wonderful. To our shame is it, that, we only, do not heed them, but oppese them, fight against A - ern with an. arnazing . faluity. , .As the warm weather cornea on, we are all consciousof a diminutioh of ; appetite; end we either begin to apprehend we are abbot to get sick; Or . siet . ,hbo.uf stimula ting ourielves withtonics; and bitters, and Va rione kinds of teas, with the view of 'purifying the blood. Dew many swills of.sassafras-tea baS the reader taken to that end I'. No 'such purfficatiorf Would be needed, if We would fol low nature's instincts, . only with• the inclination she gives us;insteadof..talcing ton- ICS to make is eat more, when we actually re- . quire less. ' Observant persons have noticed': _that as• spring:comes on; there is less relisl tor meats of all kinds, and we yearn for the earlkspring vegetables, the irgreens,'; the salads,'the Spin nage, the - radishes,.and Ilaelike.. Why? JUit look at it! :Meats have more thah fifty..per cent.'of carbon, of the heating-forni principle. 'Vegetables and herries have ten per cent"' five per cent., One 'per cent. of 'heat! Potatoes have eleven per cent., turnips three per cent., goose -berries only One. : • . Literally, incalculable are the' good results which Would 'follow a practical :attention to these,facts.. Those wits are.wisewili take no tonicsfor the spring, will sWallow 00 teas to purify, the, blood-, nor imagirrre themselves to be about getting sick, because they have not in Mayas vigorous an aPpetife as in December, but will at once yield; themselves to the 'gui dance of •the and' eat not an atom More thaw they.have an :inclination. for to the endOf a joyous spring -time and a summer of glorious health ; 'while those who will eat, who will-stimulate the „stomach With ;tonics, and , 'force" their food, must suffer with drowainess, depression, and distressing • laSSitude ; and while all nature, is waking up. to gladness rind newnese . of life;. they will have, ne renevation and no well -springs' of joyous.: and .exuberant health.---/./a/Pa Journal Of Health. • • • . - Yi r o7lfAN ' 'ADVERSITY.—Woniin 'sheuld. be More trusted and confided in as wives, Mothers, .and Sisters:, They have a quick perception lof right and Wrongi'and,yvithebt alwayS knowing why, read the.'preeentand 'futuri,-read.therec ters apdacti. designs and probabilities, 'where man Sees'no letter .or' sign, ,-What else i'o'we mean by the,adaie ccinother. wit," save. that woman bas'a 'unit:ker'perception and readier in: vention' thin man 1 ,HoW often - , when man abandons the helnfin despair, woman seizes and carries, the home-ship through' the,.Storm ! Man often flies frem boine and" family to avoid impending poverty or rain. Woman seldom, if ever, Ifors . ook.home-thas. Woman never..evil deil"mere tetnporal calamity by suicide 'or, de sertion..- The proud hanker', rather. than live trisee his poverty gasetted, may blow out hi's brains and leave 'wife ,and Children' to want; pretectorless. — Loving' women . •.would have counselled him to accept 'poverty, and live to . cheristi his family, and 'retrieve his fortune.— Woman shoidd be'cciunselled 'and confided It is the.beauty and glory' of, her natufe -, thai it instinctively grasps at anieliaga'to the truth_ and right,- Reason, man's 'greatest faculty; takes time to :hesitate: before 'it decides; but woman's instinct never hesitates in itsdeciSion, and is scarcely:ever 'wrong where.it has even chabces withreason. WiiimanfeeleWhere Man, thinks;,acts where he d'elibetates,.bopes where' he Clespairs;abd triumph's 'l,vhere,he falls. ' . . A MATTER OP FACT Peoria:TV :ilAs:—A . turned Californian. tells n' . pretty • godd Story. to the effect that; While at the 'mines, it:orn;:horse theatrical company opened•there with the play. of c.Rolla."- .The house was crowded. with miners, who were ever ready to Patronize anY , .. thing that Would afford. amusement.'When. the Peruvian hero 'was , ready to go' on for the. interview with the sentinel, whoMhe attempts to'bribe to promote, an, interview with Alonzo, risa . ed: the pronerty man (Or . : the 'wedge of gold Which he is supposed to'use, when that'in. dividual handed him a gilded-brickbat of •Ordinary . size.'`li was toe late; the stage was waiting, and Rolli,entered and went through the scene.... .He'cerneaff in etowerit g passion,. and nabbed, theproperty man. ' " . • '"What in thUnder did you Mean by giving me a heavytirick to carry'Ct . there, instead of a piece Of shingle, or a Spike; gilded?",.. ierliatinight.allbe very the Stri'tes,'! preperty .. man; ithutanoffer trrbribe. .heis with' anything'short ofr,t five pound'ehunk, would have turned the 'audience. against you; the play would', have :heel literallY•d—A, and thetheatre Would hava.nrled the . -firtt • 'The tragedian"saw the for'ce of his : reatonirig, and he succuinlied.at once. • Wonian—the noigest work of Ged A SOUTH CARQLINIA• PLANTATION . The Charleston. 'correspondent of the - New :York. • . • • . I've .been . to eplantation, regular built, 'bona 'de Bailin sure: 'Arid, in the absence otother information, Pit tell you all ,aheut it. As we, drove throtigh . :.the gliteWay,'at'the end of the . latieleadingtethe house, an aged colotedindk vidual touched hie hat and infortiledtis that his Massa was at Yet house, yonder. ,Heving met the .gentlernan, we 'accepted. his invitation le through thequarters. The quarters con. elated of a long line, of disconnected houses ei tending . on_ either'side of i .a kind Of street: 7 - L'ntering one We found &girl about 95, cooking rice tot herself and her...Dittman; who waeyet at his task, - . and two pickaninnies,whewere rolling on the floor. The „girl was about five feet and four inches• high, and -Weighed , some two hundred pounds. Her arms were :firm and hard, and the • palms other handi 'were . like horn.: ,SheshoWed us her: teeth, and such set 1 never saw'made •by any dentist in our ,part, of the country. She was, not very corn municative,•but the little darkies were • • . • •. . aftdi whiletebe '.We s teh entered • they were rolling on the floor,.playing With a rn coon. being eoeWhat abashed at-our pras'- ence, they slid out et,sight, and the next I saw' of Lafayette be 'MIS standing on his head in the corner of the table,. and Shadrach . was under the bed with his head peeping around the post. Tho'girl Upset. Lafayette with. her font,.arid threw a yarwat Sbadrach.. This brought them to theii feet, and I asked theMsevernlquestions . about their , play, and 'so :on, until I flattered 'myself I. bad-quite gained' their confidence ; but when . ' started. to go . l•found one •foot. ham pered by a . t.ring te theleg of Imy chair,- and in my, hat ti,yarn weighing at laruit five pOunds. I thought these fellows deserved and earned their quarter. The-next houiewas occupied, by the .nurse, or -woman, Who during the abeence '.o( the mothers in the cotton field, attends' to' ' . the children On the The old: .woman; now too advanced to, work advaialige„ .had ten little, children ,', ranging from six weeks up - to eight years Oldunder. her care. • • •*.A.t the call of, the proprietor they came turn bling outhetore us, • presenting a very singular, and novel appearance. • Their eyes . werti as bright as the stars-at .night, and , their teeth were as white -as. the Northern:Lights. We spent something like an hour'wandering through 'the houses; the, fields' and the. various nut; houses, learning Mach and beingireatly enter tained. ' There were: la servants bethe place —quite a little 'army. ' 'The gentlenian In formed its belied never 'sold 'but one servant, and Itib'salo was in: Consequence of great moral' depravity.... . • • , • Public .ientiment, we learn;•ii so 'sternly ailveise to hi..sepdration of Minnie's, that such an occurrence is.of greet rarity. The darkies so far as I haveseen, both house-servant's and teld-harids; . Seem: greatly attached to. their masters and are apparently. contented and hap . - py. .• Whether , that is anything.in favb !Vibe systerri or not: 4.a-question.. • ••, Hoy:Ann. Trre Won A •MISTAITE ?—One of the sad dest mistakgawhich'good people belie..made is in Suppoaingthe vi•orld:to•.be arnistake. To . these.people,—and their number, is not small— the earth is but a, theatre of pain , and sickness, sorrow and death. -.Joy is illusive;, pleaittr; 'a cheat,.laughter a mockery', , and happiness, a 'thing imp . ossible, and not even to be looked for on this side of the grave.; The performance of all duty is the "taking up" of what they call cross'.'.' .They ate actually 'afraid to be. happy under an overshadowing impression that they have no right.ito.be . haPpy :in this. :They believe. there 'is something bad. in the world that they inbaliit, and reject all the joy,that praiceeds.fiom it.. They: have , in idea that the moral evil which': afflicts the human race'llas struck To them a trial—severe, unlenting, Perpetual. Ali that seems good and graceful and -glirious in the 'world is a lioklow.sham, for the: deception of the unwary and the ruin of the unwise. MY BABY-BOY. • Come , to my. arms,' you'bewildering'elf ! Let me gather you, body and soul, to myself. Bury your scintillant eyes antEhair, • And all tbe 'glory and grace you wenr, • Prom twinkling feet 'o golden crown, • peep in the folds of thy' crimson. gown': Clasping you close to my.boSom and heart; A thing of my holiest being a pat t ; Crooning a song in the olden 'rhyme, Tender and sweet as a vesper-chime. '• “Persevere, persevere,” said-'an old lady friend_ of ours to her help, icit'e the way' you can accomplish great things. One day eight, apple dumplings were: sent down' stairs, and theralydisaPpeared.- p where are those dumplings ?" 4, 1 managed to get through thim, - ma'arti, 3 ! replied soy. ctVhy, how 'On earth did'you manage to eat so many dumplings 1" "'By'persevering, - ma!am,! %yea the 'meek answer. •. • . • It is,an old and true saying that a man should not marry Unleis he can support' a wife ; and, from some exampleti that we bavn seen, we beginning to doubt seriously wbether s'uioman can prudently marry unless she can support a r. • Ttr, , . . ' • , , • '.• - 9. 4 ~ . ‘. : ;• 4 4*: , .., - ,•••.,•; . •... - - • , • • . *, . • • The Senator and the Landlord, . . . . • The seniorAfr..a, of the IVationat Hotel . . uy, . • . . . at Washington, bears quite alikeess to GenJ eralleass,.and.uponthie the 'correspondent ..of • , the New York Times tent the 'follpiing -strity A . stranger . who..supPosed. ha knew mine' host, very Well,:put up, at the' National* the •:other. night: Since this.lMme lies become. the crick hotel at . the Capital,•it is quite full, and at this time, the new comet :bee sss s iIY, for the -first night, was sent to the; upper • floor to' eleen, t - . , Coming down stairs the.next mornieg,.l little cross, he Met General Cass there,. who has a .firm suite of .rOpuns' in 'he .'hall, stepped up' tri him, and in iangnage more forcible, and rapid: than eleeant, said . • • . • if Nil stand.' it ! You've put.rreat•the top•of the houee.' Imuethave room snmewhere.loiver doVm." • • ' . ..• . . General Casa; interposing and - - nerVOusly:-- ' , Sir; you are inistaken•in- the person: you are am.. General Cosa, of Michiga n Stranger, confusedly---Baji you pardon, Gen• eral,Cass—thoughiit was my old friend guy.. Bega - thimsand narrrlons; air. n ; Mistake, all' mistake, all, a mistake. 11 - assure you, sir.". The General passed out of the . buildink, hint anon retiunad, and as luCle...ivOuld have -stranger met him lull in the.face flain,,',but, in anot . lier..positien, ...Si). the .stranger . steped bold l y. up, slapped .the General".teartity. - .and familiarly on ihe:sbOulder, and exclaimed :' "By heavens, Quyi I've,got a rich sell to re late. -1.: met • old Cass up . stairs, just..nrivv, thought it was vOu and began - cussing .him •tleneral. Cass (vOih.. emphasis.) . eiWell, young man:you've'tnet old Caen again! Stranger sloped and has not been heard ct ein• • LOVE OF A, PEENED SOLDIER FOR Ills MOTHER, —The brie afthe 'French soldier for kis mother in proverbialF it. is a Sentiment which survivea . every other; he can never be . lalighed out of and as long as he hohis that sacred he will ways' be reclaimable. .there. were many. touching instances of this characteristic attach- . went during the Crimean eatripaign.. • 4iOne . Any," egiys - ,the aunninfer, .ccafter a desperate. action, 6:young Sergeanrt of chasseuri was -Iy ing'avriiiting his death, for a ball had passed .through bis ,body lie knew his case 'tvai hopeless, and .1 poured the consolations of rejig= ion into his heart. «A b, futher,", he said,. "the ripprnitch Of-death -does, not' make trie un. easy; -I havelusi been reconciled , to God;- not.feeillis justice; knew .h9w. loving and merciful.He is, Tharwhich .with -an guish is";--and he paused, for the: tears Pine to eyes, and:choked- his s utterance—e<the thought's), rny-Poor mother. - Aslong as was receiving my pay, I always Managed to, put by something to send her: When I am . MS'longer Imre; she will die of grief and misery:" and the tears flowed afreah,, for hp was praying for his mother. I lecited with him'a pater forher, and- With the words; "Give her this day, her deili breed" on 'his,lips, he calmly expired." FOR SELF•GOVERNM . RIIT. —By Pruden Old Gentliman: • Always sit next to the carver, if you can, a • Aek no *omen her age: . • . civil to all -rich Uncletand.aunta. • Never Joke•rc _ ith'a policeman. • Take no notes, or gold, wittiyou.t . rin Fancy . Baaar:—nothing but eibier. Your olilest hai of course ? for ail evening Don't plat, :at chess, wl9l. a widow.. . Neyer contradict a man - who +gutters, • . pull downpikOr blind before you put on youY • • Make.friends. with the. Stewardon :board a steamer 7 -there's •ho - knovving how soon: you may be. placed in his power. . • • In every strange . . hoes, , it •is . as ,well to in quire.where the brendy kept-;•only think you.were taken ill in; the night! Nevcr answers crossing sweeper. Paibim Or else pass, quickly and• silently 0n.., On'e word, a'nd you are !oat. • Keep your own secrets. iTell no human be ing: yob ayre youi.whiPkers. •• • : . Never effeMl • ti..blitler—,the wretch has too many %hence! orretattation.. • Write not nneleiter mere than you cen help: The men wh4ecrs up a hir.ge correeperulence is a martyr, lied not to the'stake ) but to the . Wind up your.coriduet, like your watch, once every day, eicaminir g minutely whether , you are cifast" or ggsloW." . . . .° THE OLD O.A,HIEY Flumcri.—The followiiiir reminiscence of Samuel Woodworth posSesseg sufacieet interest, we think, to Warrant. us in presenting it to our readers. 'lt is a portitin of a private letter recently received' from . one .whose authority in the matter - cannot be ques- . .tioned. In reference to the period of the pro duction of- the itOld . o , iken.Bueket," the wri- - .ter says: '44lt was written in the spring or surn-, mer of 1I317.; The family were living at 'the time in Duaile stre,ly The pOot. came ..home to din ner .one'very Warm 'day, having walked froth . hie office,., somewhere near. the foot of Wall street, being 'much lntel:l'3oth. the exercise he poured %himself Out a'. glass of 'water—New, York Neap water—and drink it . at draught, exclaiming, as he replaced the tumbler on the table, stthat is 'very refreshing, Mit how much • more 'refreshing would it he to take-a draught this ;warm day, from the old oaken' buck et,l left . hengke in my father's well, at hoMel," Hearing_this, the Poet's:wife, who was 'always a suggeitive.bOdy; said, 'diSelim,.Why wouldh' t it he a prirry subject for a. pOem?" , -Tho'ito,et * , •t o ok th e hint, arid, under the. inSpirlititin'cit• the Moment, sat down, andpoured out (rem soul those beriutiful „lines which kayi, imrnor._ tilixed the name of WoodWOrth,ii.4He'its. • ANCIENT OIL Ent: ' ThefolloWing interestio tee A ' • - •• cunt. Oi lt-Pits near Titusville; we eattrititt'lligger - ' an address of W. , upon the r eerlfhlatory :of, OraWfrustr o 'iregetty,.., Published in , theCrowford . :4llieeMeitss"eolitte'' 13th of .April, • • .. A short dietanett bide* • the itillageillities: villa, in this ' , minty ' , end Oe.•the. wait 01, - 011 Oilereek;.there are pit hips-tata , 'mattered over a level plain, Dot: eitteirdileg. lee hundred acres. Some of thest:airioior.ebilit. together, as close" as the ::ester* it'• which" her somewhat ,reiembli eacit'havieg been about seven . or or: feet 'egg, ikilW: - (gott ri 'hide and six feet deep.' ;Those pits of:iste_ had nearly' all been filled;. some . : Of, tient . tirely so, by 'vegetable &peat; pernelietkilerle;', - cumulation of ages. , The mowed. raised ' the side of each pit by . : tbe. ageavatioeritlki: ' earth from it •• are"v Close isible.',''' dpon ihe margin of ming :ollthem, epee the. very mounds made by' . the' earth, . wool ...• whose size and , appeareace Indicate an ego :ofrr . two or three hundred . .yeare r arer. found i,groies ing. These trees could not have egieledrat the: time those vats weremada, lot it reasonable to suppohe that those engaged friths milting:of these pits, would" either have commenced their, ._; labor, so far foam the standing timbrit *bellboy would not be Obstructed by the vats, or would have cut the timber down. ;Anatherlhinif 'fordingranrindex ta tie time Whietheee ma) _ have been made; is the fact that-100s lbs. inhabitant' now in their vicinity,,llrst dimity erect the vats' from their regularity in size and- ' the order"of ;heir. location, byrthe Indentations of thesUrface and the general. etteltranee' of ';' the meund;• they 'were indiced te;cmen On .doing so,•they discovered thet ascii pit wael • of the size bi.fore :mentioned 'ied With 'lOra, regularly cut and bedded at the ends NCI that they could lie close together,. they Wiens tine the caving of the earth. j Now there are nd'evidences on the ground 'showing where the r legs used in walling_the pits, were cut.* 'Asa 'although the whole flat at this day'is ceiered with standing timber, not a atuMp.reetaino. to show . that the Diemen had ever keen Aline prior to its visitation'hy the Whites. Mu, these pits have recently , been opened,: were found: about the same depth, feehioiedind "wailed nearly`alike. Whether:itwee etirleciti or cupidity that induced This am unable lo'determine--:but certain it Is,,thet: • when "excavated to the bottom Of , the ; ing will , ' ; it was found:that water raised in;the.pit to the depth of four or five inches. ' On Tiering, the pits. a day er'two after the exievetlarib: ascertained that the weter,lio them, watt.cov ered by nil to the thickneriar one-third or one. half an inch. This at once' demonstrated the use to which they. had hien applied! they had , been used for gathering' what we poSuitell Senr;' eca Oil, and the number of pits 'show.. that, whoever 'Mined in it, hed;;ln urea mod's • - ern expression, •r4gone into' nem." It also proveg enotheithing;:tlMt thole , pit;' Were : not made - by the r lediens, regularity, their number,. their. being ',Walled, with : cut logs halved at tke;.sodithe., avers., nese of the Indian to labor; all forbid theldek that he 'could have brien.theiritelfet.:. Beaidea this, the Indians,.have boen have no 'traditions respecting them; et .laget none more satisfactory than they lieverd the mounds and fortifications found throughout lb. west,— Nor could three'. evidences; of former oectipal Lion have been ,made hi the French. The int", her of pits proves that Many Persons Must hail • been employed in collecting the Seneca The French wee en :enterprising, ° war-like • and intelligent people. tied they, been the ape- • Wore, there we would, have found perhaps, an : old fort, or the remains: of a village. They , Would not have been in fleck numbers '.and tor such a length of:time, M. e partioular district 'of country, es the works Indicate they must have remained, without the means . of protects ing thennaelves.froM the wild man of the . for- act:.:, In addition to title the French did not take possession or visit.our ceentry; till alieut the year 17521 while the tree.. mounds and .. pits indicate a much greater age, than, would be allowed to them by • assigning that period.. for rtheir construction.. And more;than all, the -French haie neiteorde; as'l nave been credibly, • informed, shoWing thatthey.had anykno.itledts of the article Obtained 'there,: and noW 'called Senecuoil.. It is well knistin that their eeen. pation of this country, wawa Milliary,,Occipas, tion. Arid by.the rule, of. their militarycmie, everything, of. note in Which each portiOD 0f,., their army Was. 'organized, have le be • reported, and, would be now foam] as Ale in the war department, of Fiance. 'Uhl probable Omit . so many soldierett tlieFrench-;atmy as trust necessarily have been engaged in'tbfa business: , for the requisite' length of saw • fin..to • have been reported to that 7department,. eiallyan a matter which mast have greatly ex , cited their curiosity as Lereliter,ilesire to gain They wore not Made by the 'French. They • Were.not made hi , the North . AMerican hut in all probability were made by that 'peo- ale Who. erected the other mounds and fortifica tions, towers end• eities• in the valley of the Missiseinni. Their apnearenee bears the same . age and justifies this conclusion. • Min To Go IT.—GO it ton in yoitr prtio, of the absent. Some or it he sure to get . . • Go , it strong when ' pow moire Wye toe yrettp. Widow. Afore nenple'hiten eirml.hy• toolimo thin too much in this t • Go it etrong when ; takiriq . y tputnbution~. fora charitable porporr., sticona whun.ypti traltit:m'iiu!ilif,ttittutch t Nine penile out ol tiiineyarlifta-anrallaaisp uniest. it •cuts lika,a' .; shoitAand:lpil a rhinoceros cpwhitje., .G° it . etrong I Y9 6 ', is like itiiittbc!ort(o4,,64.l Coluans. Go it **VIII aoli th!iiPtiOtero 4tPMigi himhMtltit** bfingo eustctenlrit6 Your -v 6 ,7 ;kir, lee would tliseover 'our viliatitimithie It ii thariolema itociughreffprf - 4 0 111 b*'' 416 • 4 00.thit.hiff!'. ottrpeot.. • , ,„
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